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For 12,922 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,619 out of 12922
  2. Mixed: 5,136 out of 12922
  3. Negative: 1,167 out of 12922
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  1. Step Up: All In
    It is unlikely that a lot of viewers come to see a Step Up film for convincing dialogue or psychological insight into a group of young things trying to make it big in a ruthless industry. But there’s barely any humor that doesn’t feel third-rate and most of the plot threads are so thin that All In occasionally feels like a satire of a dance film.
  2. Sex Tape
    Sex Tape is sexcruciating.
  3. Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
    Klinger is clearly aiming at a hardcore of filmmakers and cinema students, but even that niche audience will only glean incomplete insights into the methods and motivations of his subjects.
  4. Horns
    A fable-like horror mystery with strong comic and romantic tendencies, Alexandre Aja's Horns draws on source material by cult scribe (and son of Stephen King) Joe Hill to deliver something much more beguiling than the straighter genre fare (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes) that made his name.
  5. The Tribe
    The use of sign language, deafness and silence itself adds several heady new ingredients to the base material, alchemically creating something rich, strange and very original.
  6. Audrey
    Aside from the ponderously contrived narrative, however, which mines a long list of supposedly relatable female insecurities and neuroses, much of the characterization relies on one-dimensional stereotyping.
  7. The BreakUp Guru
    Deng and Yu have delivered a ceaseless juggernaut of incoherently-strung together gags like a lightweight Stephen Chow; this could make Adam Sandler, who could easily be imagined dabbling in something like this, look like a nuanced artist.
  8. Underwater Dreams
    Though cheerful and highly polished, the doc's storytelling is less effective than it might've been, a failing balanced by the likability of its lead characters and the scrappy spirit of their project.
  9. The Perfect Wave
    Commercial director Bruce Macdonald’s first feature film feels curiously inert.
  10. And So It Goes
    No one who sees the film will feel it breaks any new ground, but as a cinematic equivalent of comfort food, it goes down easily.
  11. The Battered Bastards of Baseball
    The Battered Bastards of Baseball is not just about baseball. It transcends the game and is a charming anti-establishment yarn.
  12. Road to Paloma
    Straining mightily for a mythic quality and reaching a predictably melancholic, violent conclusion, Road to Paloma mainly comes across as a vanity project star vehicle.
  13. Made in America
    Less music-stuffed but more conceptually ambitious than the average music doc.
  14. Honour
    An uneven mix of serious issue movie and sensational thrill ride, Honour is no masterpiece, but it is an accomplished debut.
  15. The Empty Hours
    A slight anecdote expanded to slightly beyond its natural length, The Empty Hours is nevertheless time well spent.
  16. As It Is in Heaven
    Director Overbay, working from an effective screenplay by his wife Ginny Lee Overbay, slowly ratchets up the tension in quietly compelling fashion.
  17. Affluenza
    Ultimately feels as shallow as the lives of most of its principal characters.
  18. Closed Curtain
    Closed Curtain is a moody, intellectually complex film that requires good will and brainwork on the part of the viewer to penetrate and enjoy.
  19. Rage
    There are some good ideas struggling to be heard, but they're drowned out by the contrivances, the gunfire and the screaming.
  20. The Green Prince
    Though the political background is fascinating, what finally resonates is that Schirman manages to humanize both Yousef and his Israeli handler, Gonen Ben Yitzhak, who would become an unlikely friend and ally.
  21. Web Junkie
    Filmmakers Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia probe this phenomenon, jarring viewers with an inside look at one of these “reform” centers, as well as shedding light on the mindset of these Internet “addicts.”
  22. Planes: Fire & Rescue
    Beautiful to look at, this is nothing more than a Little Engine That Could story refitted to accommodate aerial action and therefore unlikely to engage the active interest of anyone above the age of about 8, or 10 at the most.
  23. Nothing Bad Can Happen
    Gebbe has made a robust and compelling first feature, deftly shot and ably acted, especially by its younger cast members.
  24. School Dance
    School Dance is the sort of oppressively offensive comedy that makes you aware of your brain cells dying as you watch it.
  25. America: Imagine a World Without Her
    Here is one more dubious piece of agitprop that will delight the author’s fans and have very little impact on his opponents.
  26. Han Gong-ju
    An impressive debut driven by a timeline-blurring narrative and nuanced performances.
  27. Premature
    The script, by Beers and Mathew Harawitz, offers a little less invention in this endless-repeat scenario than it might have.
  28. Deliver Us From Evil
    While the supernatural side of the film suffers a flaw or two — continued references to The Doors are superfluous and sometimes chuckle-inducing — its central conflict works.
  29. Tammy
    It’s a waste of a good cast as well as a serious trip-wire for McCarthy, who may know what’s best for her talents but, on the evidence, needs a deft-handed outsider to make sure she’s maximizing them.
  30. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
    Dawn of the Planet of the Apes manages to do at least three things exceptionally well that are hard enough to pull off individually: Maintain a simmering level of tension without let-up for two hours, seriously improve on a very good first entry in a franchise and produce a powerful humanistic statement using a significantly simian cast of characters.
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